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NKW YORK HERALD1, STOTOXT, NOVEMBER I, 1908.
"Suffragists Win Over a Man Milliner

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"Woman suffragists seized upon the occa- � slon of the republican business men's parade yesterday as a good opportunity for , proselyting in the cause of equal rights, I and from the second story windows of No. ( 1326 Fifth avenue the Equality League for ^ |self-supporting women sent out yellow bal- r 'loons bearing the legend "Votes for 'r "Women."
Many of the paraders greeted the. women } j with cheers and waving hats, but the com- � I motion among the marchers was as noth-i Ing compared with the excitement on the V I sidewalk, where an anti-suffrage man mil- j l I liner yelled defiance at the women, sent a iA I page up a ladder to puncture the balloons :� and ifinally called a policeman to suppress ,': the women. *
Toward the end of the procession, when , the lawyers' section was going r>v. there J was a cry of "speech, speech" f. jm the t, crowd, to which Miss Inez Milholland, ' Vassar, '09, tlie leading suffragette of that ; college, who had come to New York especially for yesterday's demonstration, responded throxigh the megaphone. About two thousand men blocked up the sidewalk to watch her. The procession halted and the man milliner who already had interfered twice with the suffrage dem- i onstration, summoned the police to dls-' perse the crowd and compel Miss Milhol-i land to stop talkin. j
The men in the street then forcnedd In j squads of fifty and went up info the suf-j fraglsts' room, where Miss MJlhoI-land answered their questions regarding the suf-
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, frage cause. The mea gave three cheers ' for votes for women.
The excitement of the morning began with the 'initial effort to blow up the bal-i loons. The women were unable to Inflate j them and appealaed to several photographers who came to the rescue. Some of the p'heres were made to ascend, but many of them went down to the pave-1 . ment and a lively scramble for possession of them ensued.
�Small boys gathered to the fray in gneat numbers, the marchers cheered, the " women waved banners and used naega-, phones to good purpose.
"You will notice," said Mrs. Harriet ' " Stan-ton Blatoh to her disciples as the iparad-era went by, "that the middle aged � men are the best. The minds of the old . imen are atrophied, and from the young i men one cannot expect much, but the i miiddle aiged men are to be depended on. : They sympathize with us." :
Just then the man milliner got into the :> picture. A yellow balloon had floated down ! j upon the hat of a. woman on the side- : , ! walk and on being disentangled from her � ,. plumes had settled upon the brow of a -j I baldheaded man who had his hat off yelling at the procession. The boys scrambled | for it and the milliner dashed into the : ; street and shouted up to the women: 11 \ "You'll break my show windows; you'll j; ! have to stor> it." M
The women decided to compromise in the ' ; interest of harmony by not sending out|<
; any more balloons in such a way as to excite the pedestrians. Instead they tied . long strings of them to the windows, al-i lowing them to flutter in the breeze. This j failed to satisfy the milliner and the strings of balloons had been out only a few minutes when a ladder was quickly � raised and a page ran up it and began- , puncturing the balloons with a long pointed stick.
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Instantly the crowd jeered the milliner, and one bystander who had been calling-"Get a hook" at the suffrage megaphone operators came over to the cause and helped to knock' the page off the ladder.
Feeling that tin the circumstances they were no longer under obligations to regard the feelings of the milliner the women again began sending balloons over the heads of the crowd. For a time all was peace, then the tramp of masculine boots | was heard on the stairs. The door into the suffragists' room opened. It was the. man milliner still irate and now re-enforced by a policeman. The milliner recited his grievances while Mrs. Blatch replied with the tale of the punctured balloons. | "I don't see that I've got anything to do here," remarked the policeman, when the I explanations were over and he walked j away, leaving the suffragists to carry out (their programme of floating balloons, 'varied by the sharp report of an.occasional | exploding one, to their hearts' content.